The Estate
"The world of art is blown wide open" (Jonathan Santlofer, national bestselling author of The Lost Van Gogh) in this simmering speculative suspense for fans of The Cartographers that follows art historian Camille Leray, whose secret ability lands her in the middle of the dangerous schemes of the most powerful players in the industry...
Art historian Camille Leray has spent her career surrounding herself with fineries and selling pieces worth millions. But she harbors a secret: she has the ability to enter the world of any piece of artwork, and she can take others with her. But tapping into history comes with great risks. And someone has been watching, someone who knows about her magic, and her mistakes...
After Camille ruins her career and reputation by misusing her powers, she vows to get her old life back. So when Maxime Foucault, an enigmatic aristocrat who owns a sprawling French estate, enlists her help in authenticating the statues of a mysterious artist, whose disappearance she has been trying to solve for years, she knows this could be her chance to turn her career around and get the man she's always wanted.
But something isn't right about the Foucault family and the grand chateau they inhabit, and as Camille gets sucked into its walls, she finds a world of luxury and greed that causes her to risk losing herself, and everything she has ever known, forever.
Filled with magic, suspense, the allure of Arthurian legend, and dark academia, The Estate unravels a mystery that spans generations--while blurring the fine lines between reality and imagination, creation and destruction, and being haunted or free.
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Become an affiliateSarah Jost is a Swiss national who has been living in the UK since 2008. She works as a Housemistress and French teacher at a girls' school, which she considers an immersive course in character study. Sarah lives in Buckinghamshire with her partner Luke and their adorable and destructive puppy Winnie. Five First Chances is her debut.
"The world of art is blown wide open in Sarah Jost's The Estate, as her protagonist's gift for literally entering works of art unlocks a mystery and the truth in a novel that is at once fantastic, romantic and always exciting." -- Jonathan Santlofer, Author of The Last Mona Lisa and The Lost Van Gogh
"The novel's moody, gothic setting in a French castle and its dive into Arthurian legends will attract many readers." -- Booklist